*****SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** Writer/director/musician John Carpenter is arguably most famous for 1978’s “Halloween” and 1982’s “The Thing,” but in 1988 he crafted a clever social/political satire called “They Live,” that went largely unnoticed upon its initial release. I’ll admit, even I didn’t see the movie until I rented it on laserdisc (yes, I’m that old) sometime…
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Halloween in February: ‘CreepIEcon 2022’ comes to SoCal’s Inland Empire…
“Welcome To My Nightmare…” This past weekend, during a sunny but windy Southern California February, my favorite holiday of Halloween briefly returned to the month of Valentine’s Day. Long delayed due to the COVID pandemic, CreepIEcon 2022 (the “i” and “e” emphasized for “Inland Empire”) finally reached the Ontario Convention Center in the San Bernardino…
“Free Guy” (2021) borrows a lot of its code, but it’s nicely spent…
****** SPOILERS AHEAD !****** Ready Player, Too? For full disclosure; anyone who’s read this column long enough might realize that I am not a gamer. My experience with video games goes as far as playing Pac Man, Asteroids, and Beserker at a local arcade in my high school years, and a several month honeymoon with…